"Dear Mr. President"

I was just watching one of Pink's concert videos featuring that particular song of hers and I found myself wondering. Considering it was a blatant attack on Bush on a level that Natalie Maines never even attempted, why didn't she attract the fire that the Dixie Chicks did? Was it because she wasn't a country music star? Funny, all things considered. It WAS terribly blatant, with lines like "you've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine." What Natalie said seems remarkably tame compared to that.

Is it because she's a pop star, not worth paying any attention to? Foolish, really. Pop is short for "popular," which means she's got a very large audience. From teens to men and women in their forties, as a matter of fact. She's got more talent, drive, and soul in her pinkie toe than Ms. Spears has in her whole body. No comparison.

Where was the outrage? I didn't hear ONE squeak of protest from the RW. Did they not know about it? It makes me wonder.

I've seen her bashed here on occasion--called a "pop tart" of all things, as if she's no different than Brittney. She's an blunt, outspoken, and talented artist who deserves more respect than that, in my opinion. From both sides.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdsIHK7y1rU


Surprising, in light of everything. Surprises me, anyway.

:shrug:

a while isn't such a long time after all.

This place is like a sucking whirlpool.

On the other hand, I got some of the stuff done I needed to accomplish for the moment.

The Dixie Chicks were in London right after the invasion happened in 2003 and Natalie Maines stated her opinion of the prez at a pretty sensitive time, as far as rightwingnuts were concerned. Not many of the lies had been exposed yet and it was popular over here to shout "Roll On" while flag-waving and other such crap, so Ms. Maines became someone to "roll over" and liken to the "enemy"

Pink's wonderful song wasn't even released in the USA til early last year, so wingnuts weren't quite so inclined to disagree with her sentiment or at least, not quite so publicly. I'm sure somewhere there' a private shooting gallery for I'm Not Dead CDs and dart boards with Pink's pic.

Shooting at a "I'm not dead" CD cover? Boy, if that doesn't point out the futility of it, I don't know what would. :rofl:

about Pink's song, when she was singing it with the Indigo Girls as back-up. Fanatics got a twofer to rant about...I think I need xultar's exploding head emoticon to adequately explain the effect Dear Mr. President had in some areas.

A lot of negative comments were made about the Chicks insulting Bush on foreign soil.

Most of the country was still completely asleep when Natalie made the comments and C & W listeners tend or as least at that time tended to be right-wingers. Pink's fan's demographics and the timing being now where most people see the * administration at least in part for what they are.

She did it first when it wasn't popular to be anti-bush.

Secondly, it's country music. The fans of that particular genre have a tendency to be RW bush-loving nutjobs...not all of them, thankfully, but enough of them to make life hard on the Dixie Chicks.

Remember, the Dixie Chicks had their lives threatened, too. It was serious enough that they needed body guards.

Those girls took the brunt of a hell of a lot of attacks when most celebs were afraid to speak out. I'd say they paved the way for more celebs and are heroes in my book.